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>the only jobs that AI will replace are the people who refuse to learn how to use it. I truly agree here although I do believe it will cause some downsizing. Where 3 people did 1 role before, 1 will likely be doing it with AI. I havent played with having it code yet, but that info is wild and super relevant! A lot of people refuse to believe AI can do these things, yet we are seeing them in our day to day lives. I administrate an AI that is for cyber security. It did replace that mundane part of my job, but I still administrate it. What would take me 30 min of research from hitting every place it goes, it does it in a couple seconds. It isnt even compareable. OP replied to this same comment of mine saying they were far more efficient than AI. Bullshit. Humanity doesnt even come close efficiency wise. I wouldnt feel safe not having this AI do the cyber security roles it does. It goes above and beyond the time I have in a day to dedicate to those roles. And as much as I hate to admit it, b/c I consider myself pretty damn good at my job, it is far more efficient than I ever could be. And I am the guy everybody comes to for answers, b/c I am the problem solver that solves their issues. Seriously, thank you for the coding insight you provided! It was greatly appreciated to have someone else confirm this in the real world. I feel antiAI is mostly kids/youth here on reddit that are oblivious to the current workforce realities.

You know, you might have a point OP, if you had come back and proved the information was false. But as a senior admin around the same age as your coworkers, copilot has yet to fail me. I didnt use copilot at first, until I saw how efficient the AI that does our cybersecurity is. I figured I would give it a chance and have been nothing but happy with the results provided. When the 25 year old "new guy" asks me questions I will usually give him copilot response as well. B/c believe it or not, I am busy with my own stuff. If copilot doesnt provide the answer (it has yet to fail me) then I would get more involved. Now the 28 year old tech (with 5 years experience) talks daily about how amazed he is that copilot is as accurate as it is. And then for home life I use chatgpt daily. Once again, it has yet to fail me as I know what I can and cant ask it. OP, using AI isnt an issue unless it is providing you inaccurate data. I have an assumption, that just like me, your coworkers are finding extreme success with it. Being antiAI in a field like ours isnt going to get you far at this point. It is the future. It is our future. We will be the ones administrating those systems as well. To me, AI is just another computer program to be manipulated.

But if we need them, they have to be built somewhere. If not our backyards, and not our forests, then where? And dont get me wrong, I dont think we should destroy our forests to build datacenters. The most logical place is in areas close to the people working at them.

If datacenters are needed, they should be built. I will agree that the American public shouldnt be responsible to pay for their utility use. But thats about as far as I go on it. I support the superior product within businesses. The bigger issue will be what happens to the 75% of humanity who becomes uneplmployed by AI over the next 20 years? That should be our focus. We wont stop AI, but we can at least plan accordingly for humanity.

I think this is a bunch of fake news from the antiAI crowd b/c they are figuring out how much superior AI is to them in the workforce. Meanwhile, professional sysadmins like myself are installing the superior product inside businesses. And it has only proven itself.

We have a laundry room in our basement, with counter top next to it for folding and then a rack to hang things above it. We also have our furnace, water heater, and water softner/filter in that room.

Thats when I reply with "how about you focus on your job and let me focus on mine." Now dont get me wrong, as a systems admin of over 15 years, I use copilot daily on top of the multiple paid AI that I administrate. I applaud them for using AI, but it doesnt do them much good if they cant fix the problem with the provided info.

It truly makes me cringe to hear people who call themselves system admins complain about supporting systems like AI. It is literally our job title. And sorry OP, you will never even come close to being as efficient as the AI is. It just isnt possible for humanity. And as a system admin, you should know that supporting AI isnt putting you out of a job, its your new job. I am just glad to know that I dont work with admins like this. I enjoy working with tech forward companies and dont have room on my team for those who wish to remain cavemen. I really do expect more from people who claim to be system admins.

Its like choosing between pepsi and coke. Both pretty much taste the same.

Oof, with this system admin retiring, you might only pay attention to what is needed. When he is gone, fix your storage issues. Build redundancy into it. No, that is not how you do things. We use a SAN here.

I would say the sign of an empty plate or their lack of eating for a period of time. I cant say this is a struggle in America. I do pile all of my stuff on my plate when finished though just to make it easier on the server for cleanup.

As excited as I am, I am equally content with Crimson Desert at the moment.

Why are you letting personal cell phones connect to your work network?? Thats a big nope from me dawg. Thats a much bigger issue than people printing from said phones!!

>if work is meant to be this dull and boring, and quiet. This means you are likely doing your job properly. You are likely more preventative than reactive which is why your days can be dull and boring.

I dont have any immediate answer software wise. It was just a general question with a general answer. But AI currently exists to replace almost any white collar role. And I mean specifically fine tuned to that role providing perfection and extreme efficiency. People are hung up on AI like chatgpt and dont realize these fine tuned AIs are already perfected. The first AIs we implemented replaced one of my roles. What took me 30 min, it can do in seconds. I admimistrate it. Its 24/7 365 coverage is far superior to 40 hour weeks with time off and vacation. And it allows me to put my focus elsewhere on bigger issues. So its just a matter of time before AI takes over each of these roles anyway.

I would definitely replace outdated overpriced software with a cheaper AI solution as long as it was providing more efficiency through it. AI is the future and system admins will play a huge part in it considering AI is just another system to administrate. Those who are afraid of this technology will likely be the first replaced by it. It is our job to implement better technology, not be scared of it. Its hard to believe some in this subreddit even are system admins with the fear/hatred they have towards AI.

The conclusion of the reality we live in? I am mid 40s. I live in this world and see it regularly.

The person who I responded to, which was not you. Why was this difficult for you to understand?? Do you just magically think people who dont know you exist and didnt reply to you are actually talking to you??

I am in no circles, and I rarely even drink. But it is THE thing to do in all of the towns in our area. Each Fri/Sat night the bars are all full of people out having fun. And uber isnt a thing really around here. Everybody is driving home. And if you arent swerving and giving the police a reason to pull you over, they dont. People get DUIs but it isnt super common. Those who do likely do get looked down upon.

Yet all are drugs. In response to OP, they arent treated much different. If you smoke cigarettes, you stink. People frown on that. Everybody drinks. Everybody drives while drinking. Drug use is pretty normalized depending on the drug. While crystal meth might be frowned upon, cocaine use shows you have money. People will also frown on crystal meth while popping adderall like it is going out of style. Weed use is super common. You can get into pretty much any music venue with leaf or a vape with 0 issue. EVERYBODY is on some type of drug, its just likely prescribed.

Automation/AI administration It us the future and will be in greatest demand.

To be fair, the AI does stop it before. The scenario should technically never happen. But if it did, it can stop it quicker than a human can.

We employ AI for our cyber security. If someone were to click on ransomeware, the AI would shut the network of that machine down before allowing it to spread.

I have heard the same on the internet, but havent personally seen it. The only thing I can say price wise is that I was able to secure 32gb of DDR5 for $200, compared to the absolutely absurd prices you see people post online. While yes, that is double what I paid 2 years ago, it is minimal compared to the $800-$4000 price tags people have posted on reddit. Personally, $200 for RAM is nothing. My company would bawk even less than me on that. I feel like we will be buying servers in the next year for an addition, so I will be curious to see what they are when we get there. The thing is, it wont matter the price, we will have to buy them regardless at that point.

Its not my money. If we need something we buy it. As for more expensive purchases, we have yet to have upper management turn anything down due to inflated price. Saying that, we havent had the need to buy any servers or anything like that this year. But if we need them, we would likely buy them withouyt any issues. We are currently working on a bid from our security company. They kept the bid today the same as it was 6 months ago. Upper management turned it down 6 months ago b/c it was pricy with little return. Due to HR, there is currrently high demand for it, so we are running with it now. It was nice to see them not increase the price, even though they increased pricing on 4/1/26, as we reengaged them on 4/2.

Fridays are a no go for us. We dont want to work our whole weekend. We replicate all our servers, so rollbacks are super simple if needed. We just do during business hours or late in the day.

What reason exactly would you need to update the scanners? They are essentially plug and play. Any changes you would make to it can be done by scanning barcodes with it that you can download off the internet for free. Or at least in our experiences. As for our experiences, we scan to turn off rostering and add a carriage return to it so they are scan and go. Those ahould be in the guide it comes with. We have never paid anything to do any kind of update on them.

We do actually use tablets, but with attached scanners, to scan barcodes. We have tablets attached to all of our order pickers and they wear finger scanners. If you are talking about using the tablet's camera for scanning, that sounds like a horrid idea. Or at least for us. I assume you are going to be scanning into some other system on the tablet? I am not even sure the camera would work for that.

We do not have copilot implemented into our systems, but a couple of us use copilot for research. Due to the nature of our business, I am not sure we would fully implement it into our systems. Maybe someday, but we arent comfortable with our data getting out there atm. I feel like only certain users would be granted this. Ones with the knowledge to automate things in departments. But it wouldnt be pushed to all users. B/c yes, companies will invest in AI to downsize, not pay more. Ultimately it will cost Microsoft licenses, but after enough people convert to AI, they will just restructure pricing. For Microsoft, this will be a temporary loss in the grand scheme of things.

HR yes, but we as system admins get to bypass the rules as well. We have 90% of the internet blocked for users (including HR) but IT is open to go wherever we want to.

We arent coding with AI, but definitely support AI taking over roles in our office. AI is our future. Its just another system for us to administrate. It blows my mind to see system admins scared of technology. Its far superior to humans in the worforce efficiency wise. I dont believe for 1 second that it is coming for my job though. And hell, AI has already replaced roles of mine. I just administrate that AI now and put my focus elsewhere. We as humanity will NEBER fully put the robots in control. There will always be a middle man administrating the texhnology.

We used to use those in our warehouse. We had a guy who didnt seem to have fingerprints, who was a constant issue. We have since moved to face detection, which works much better!

We as system admins should be embracing new technology, including AI. Its just another system for us to administrate. And from my experience, far far more efficient.

As system admins, we shouldnt be scared of a new system (AI). I welcome AI into our business. We already use it for cybersecurity and it has more than proven itself to us.

>IT shouldn't teach it, but IT can and should organize training. 100% this. We want to control what they are taught (to ensure its relevant), but it isnt our job to teach them. Its good to focus on common issues we deal with support wise.

We use 2 different AI for cybersecurity. It is far superior to what a human could do in that role. We have had it over 2 years now and it has worked flawlessly. We as aystem admins should be open to new technology, not scared of it.

The majority of our servers, including AD, is on prem. We do have O365, our backups, and other things in the cloud though. I think I prefer having them split.

I really dont care. I have a job to do and will stick to what I believe should be done. Thats what they pay me for. They can fire me if they dont like it. But I refuse to put the company at risk over ignorance.

I have 15+ years into my system admin career. I am plenty knowledgeable. But I use copilot almost daily for research. It has yet to provide invalid information. Hell the othervday I was lookimg into some kind of antenna texhnology to boost pur VZW extender. I knew nothing about it. Started on google and could only get sales ads. Went to copilot and it told me how many devices for my building size, everything needed, and extremely detailed instructions on how to install it. Copilot is a huge time saver for me.

It depends on the job. Here we buy anything we need for the job with the boss's credit card. We are considered a valuable asset and they want to ensure if downtime happens that it is as minimal as possible.

I would likely look elsewhere. $32gb of RAM is like $400 atm. I dont see that RAM being that much more expensive. Like that $20,000 more for RAM than what I can buy 32gb x4 for now.

USB sticks are disabled across our company already. Only certain people earn that right. Its a security flaw allowing users to plug them into their machines.

Yawn. Just lol. I didnt realize people on this subreddit were filled with such hatred. From your response, I likely have more years experience in my career than you have years alive. >ai bros But ah yes an AI hater. There it is. Thats ok. The world is already phasing people like you out. Thanks for the laugh, now its time for you to crawl back into the cesspool that is antiai with the rest of the children.

> In the 4 years that we had it, it has caused nothing but trouble and not once has blocked malicious actors from doing their thing. Yet the 2 years in we have had the complete opposite. It has stopped malicious attacks. I would compare this hate to artists and genAI. Elitists in complete denial of the technology, but ultimately terrified as they know it will end up replacing them.

Yes. Dont worry about us though, we are in a great spot with it. It truly feels like some of you are terrified of computer technology, AI specifcally, which blows my mind.

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I mean we have an AI that sniffs our network for anomalies. The client is installed on every endstation/server. The AI learns the activity and watches for anomalies. Someone clicks ramsomeware? It shuts the endstation network down and prevents it from spreading. Someone tries to steal company data? It shuts the network down preventing transfer and notifies us. This is a couple examples out of many things it can do. This AI coats roughly the yearly salary of a new hire. Its worth every penny.

>You sound like one of these AI sales people with this pitch. I am most definitely not a sales rep! But if my AI sales rep asked me to talk to a potential customer of theirs, I would upsell the fuck out of it. Its that valuable. >Being proud that you block Github really doesn't inspire anyone with regards to your orgs capabilities. Not sure what you mean by this. I was talking to OP about how we block all that crap, which honestly we likely block 99% of the internet. We only unblock as needed. Dont you worry about my org though, thats what they pay me for. My org is just fine.

>It would make sense if it was applied that way. But, as I noted, barely anything else is blocked. I think one of these guys just read a news article, decided he wanted to make an impactful decision that sounds smart, and he went for it. You might not be wrong on your IT peeps. Just hearing you say "Defender" earlier had me cringing. Not only do we pay for AV, but we also employ AI across our network to ensure if our employees do click the wrong thing, that it gets stopped before spreading fron their pc. And to be honest, I am not sure I would want to work in an environment without AI on the network like we have here.

>It would make sense if it was applied that way. But, as I noted, barely anything else is blocked. I think one of these guys just read a news article, decided he wanted to make an impactful decision that sounds smart, and he went for it. You might not be wrong on your IT peeps. Just hearing you say "Defender" earlier had me cringing. Not only do we pay for AV, but we also employ AI across our network to ensure if our employees do click the wrong thing, that it gets stopped before spreading fron their pc. And to be honest, I am not sure I would want to work in an environment without AI on the network like we have here.